Sheffield city centre Steel city tour Haymarket to The Moor what would our forefathers say? (1 of 5)

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  • Опубликовано: 5 дек 2024

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  • @bottletree33
    @bottletree33 7 месяцев назад +2

    Good to meet you yesterday Tim. Hope I didn’t spoil your running commentary.
    Watching your video it got me thinking that our kids don’t have the same nostalgic fond memories we have. Also the amount of desolation and unhinged dismantling of our wonderful history. I get so angry at the clowns in charge who set all this in motion.

    • @timawells
      @timawells  7 месяцев назад +2

      No issue with the commentary. You just hear yourself as I cut the video to speak. I got a great short in the Railway hotel at Bramall Lane full of real Sheffielders then walked past a bar in the New era square full of five bob millionaires. Summed it up for me Shane.

  • @misscoutts6193
    @misscoutts6193 7 месяцев назад +5

    Good start to your walk Tim. Illustrating the desolation of once-thriving areas. What happened to the I996 plans when Mike Bower was Leader of the Council to build a new indoor market hall with a multi storey car park and new retail shops in Exchange Street bordering onto Broad Street? Somehow those plans were ditched and we got a new market down the Moor instead but not til twenty years later. One by one buildings have closed down and been left, often decades, as in the case of the Old Town Hall former Crown Court now abandoned thirty years. Canada House, formerly Panache House was left twenty years now going to be a charity music school for children; not a good spot I would aver right next to the tram. Looking forward to the delights of part 2 Tim. If you can find any!

    • @timawells
      @timawells  7 месяцев назад +1

      You have confused me MissCoutts didn't realise you was Miss Havisham.

    • @andrewgamble5332
      @andrewgamble5332 7 месяцев назад

      If you go in the Moor Market wear a mask and boiler suit as it smells just as bad as the old market- Unbelievably bad, presumably from the rotting flesh on sale there.

  • @KarenG.-qs7wc
    @KarenG.-qs7wc 7 месяцев назад +2

    I'm old enough to remember when Sheffield City Centre was a thriving bustling shopping centre always pulsing with life.

    • @timawells
      @timawells  7 месяцев назад +2

      Its so rough now.

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 7 месяцев назад +1

      Dog rough. Wait til the weather gets hot people walking in street in beach clothes my Victorian grandma would've had a dicky-fit!

    • @timawells
      @timawells  7 месяцев назад +1

      @@misscoutts6193 Not much class anymore is their Miss Coutts.

  • @Suprimmsi
    @Suprimmsi 7 месяцев назад +1

    The whole market area back when I was growing up in the 80' and 90' was heaving thousands of people around and it is like a ghost town now, I think I remember an open market behind the UK steel murial as well as the Castle, Sheaf and the stalls in between the two. I remember fondly going to the cafe's on Saturday mornings with my Mum and Grandma, The upstairs cafe in the Sheaf, and I think there was a couple in the Castle not to mention the fish market with the monkey that spun around the bar. I know it is supposed to be progress but to see it like this is depressing.

    • @timawells
      @timawells  7 месяцев назад +2

      300,000 used to turn up for the Lord Mayors parade.

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 7 месяцев назад

      Why was it discontinued along with the Star Walk? I remember the Rag Week with students selling "Twikker" magazine. Now I'm getting nostalgic 😢

    • @timawells
      @timawells  7 месяцев назад +1

      @@misscoutts6193 No full marathon either.

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@timawellswe get the bike races though.

    • @timawells
      @timawells  7 месяцев назад

      @@misscoutts6193 Not as inclusive a bike race.

  • @andywright3450
    @andywright3450 7 месяцев назад

    Bi tim great content mate love it

    • @timawells
      @timawells  7 месяцев назад +1

      I have put the full playlist of 5 up Andy.

  • @andrewgamble5332
    @andrewgamble5332 7 месяцев назад +2

    Moor Market smells worse than anything its possible to describe.I was in Manchester yesterday and its actually a living city not one closed down by the council.

    • @timawells
      @timawells  7 месяцев назад

      Fish market used to stink though Andrew.

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 7 месяцев назад +1

      I used to love the smell of the fish market as you walked down the ramp. I used to go on Saturdays with my mother (didn't we all) and she bought me a bag of shrimps with vinegar! You don't see shrimps any more. The sound of the fruit sellers "pound o' bananas!". "Pound o' tomatas!"
      My uncle who had been widowed could get a good dinner in the cafe.

  • @simonmitchell1978
    @simonmitchell1978 7 месяцев назад

    Hi Tim. Thanks for another great video. I pretty mmuch agree with you too. All those nice buildings and history jusr ruined by the council as always. I have also heard that the tram is now in the hands of the public too.

    • @timawells
      @timawells  7 месяцев назад +1

      Yes SY mayoral have the tram.

  • @lali7839
    @lali7839 6 месяцев назад

    sheffield was great in the 80s 90s, don't even recognise it anymore, glad I left

    • @timawells
      @timawells  6 месяцев назад

      Absolutely. Even better before I was born.

  • @axiomcurbcommunity
    @axiomcurbcommunity 7 месяцев назад

    Where's the rest of the video? That a part 2?

    • @timawells
      @timawells  7 месяцев назад +2

      There are 5 parts. I am releasing part 2 today. I have put a playlist in the video so you can watch all 5 videos at once.

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 7 месяцев назад

      I have already. Top marks.

  • @retrorambles517
    @retrorambles517 7 месяцев назад

    The tram bridge is called bow bridge

    • @timawells
      @timawells  7 месяцев назад

      What is that about?

  • @retrorambles517
    @retrorambles517 7 месяцев назад +1

    Pause the video at 04:12
    There's a sign saying beware cyclists

    • @timawells
      @timawells  7 месяцев назад +4

      What cyclists, but I am on my guard all the time. You should see the delivery cyclists near York St/High St. Lots of undesirables caught on my video yesterday.

    • @retrorambles517
      @retrorambles517 7 месяцев назад

      @@timawells yes
      The door step opposite the German donner kebab place used to be full of drunks and druggies
      Now it's undesirables from the third world
      The takeaway delivery bikes from deliveroo are an obvious immigration scam

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 7 месяцев назад

      🤡

  • @deedahinkent
    @deedahinkent 7 месяцев назад +2

    Sheffield or Mariupol ? Zombie city vibes Tim it's awful. Unfortunately we will never get anywhere near a 50% pullback to what it once was or should still be and worse still nobody will be held accountable when this agenda proves to be disasterous . Agree that the remains will be interesting but thats about it for me. Good video Tim

    • @timawells
      @timawells  7 месяцев назад

      More to come Jon. That was the 1st episode.

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 7 месяцев назад

      How can anyone call it progress? It's been totally retrograde and wholesale destruction that continues unabated.

  • @Apathy.Apathy.
    @Apathy.Apathy. 7 месяцев назад

    Sheffield voted for 4 more years of this

    • @KarenG.-qs7wc
      @KarenG.-qs7wc 7 месяцев назад

      Sheeple🐑.
      Mindless zombies. 🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️
      I despair at Sheffielders.😞

    • @timawells
      @timawells  7 месяцев назад

      I can't get my breathe.

  • @tonto2455
    @tonto2455 7 месяцев назад +2

    Crikey more desolation. The City was a thriving hub of business and shops. Now look at it. Hardly a success story and I try to avoid it as much as possible.

    • @timawells
      @timawells  7 месяцев назад +2

      No one couldn't say I didn't pick a busy time. After 12:30pm Saturday and reasonable weather and snooker.

    • @tonto2455
      @tonto2455 7 месяцев назад +1

      Yes I'm afraid the truth hurts.

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 7 месяцев назад

      Trouble is, the younger generations do not remember what it was like. The Rag n' Tag has been gone forty years, the Castle market ten. The area was still thriving in the 'Nineties but why were the plans shelved for the new market?

    • @timawells
      @timawells  7 месяцев назад +1

      @@misscoutts6193 They young have lived a very commercial and sanitised life.

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 7 месяцев назад +1

      It's happened because they got rid of our manufacturing jobs. Also the H & S culture.

  • @alexgoff6070
    @alexgoff6070 7 месяцев назад +1

    The whole city centre is now a tacky unwelcoming dump, a human battery farm with people packed into boxes in the sky. The slums of the future for sure, it's been tried before and they know it.

    • @timawells
      @timawells  7 месяцев назад +1

      Yes Alex we saw it in the 50s, it was a big mistake, so they have done it ten fold.

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 7 месяцев назад

      What's going on🤔 who is going to live in these pigeon huts? 🤡

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@timawells the architects didn't live in them and still don't.

    • @timawells
      @timawells  7 месяцев назад

      @@misscoutts6193 Some guy from the University got the Park Hill flats listed.

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@timawells then it was sold to Urban Splash for £1.

  • @stevetheaker7286
    @stevetheaker7286 7 месяцев назад +2

    its gone and its never coming back, no point living in the what and how it used to be, just accept that its shit now

    • @timawells
      @timawells  7 месяцев назад +1

      If you don't fight this, they will come for you next in your communities.

    • @misscoutts6193
      @misscoutts6193 7 месяцев назад

      Is that it accept your Doom.
      What about a clean up campaign. More food stalls at Pinstone Street will the luxury hotel want that on its' frontage? Food spilt everywhere and discarded.
      Nothing makes sense people struggling to pay bills so we need another luxury hotel and people constantly buying takeaway food that we used to have as a treat on a day at the seaside if we were lucky a hot dog! No peace in the Peace Gardens.